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These restrictions are intended mainly to preserve the primary investigators' rights to first publication and to ensure that data users are aware of the limitations that may be associated with any specific data set. These restrictions apply to both the baseline data set and to the data sets associated with specific LTER-supported subprojects.</para><para>All publications of KBS data and images must acknowledge KBS LTER support.</para></intellectualRights><coverage><geographicCoverage><geographicDescription>The areas around the Kellogg Biological Station in southwest Michigan</geographicDescription><boundingCoordinates><westBoundingCoordinate>-85.404699</westBoundingCoordinate><eastBoundingCoordinate>-85.366857</eastBoundingCoordinate><northBoundingCoordinate>42.420265</northBoundingCoordinate><southBoundingCoordinate>42.391019</southBoundingCoordinate></boundingCoordinates></geographicCoverage><temporalCoverage><rangeOfDates><beginDate><calendarDate>2010-06-14</calendarDate></beginDate><endDate><calendarDate>2012-11-01</calendarDate></endDate></rangeOfDates></temporalCoverage></coverage><contact><organizationName>Kellogg Biological Station</organizationName><positionName>Data Manager</positionName><electronicMailAddress>lter.data.manager@kbs.msu.edu</electronicMailAddress><onlineUrl>http://lter.kbs.msu.edu</onlineUrl><userId directory="https://ror.org/">02vkce854</userId></contact><publisher><organizationName>KBS LTER</organizationName></publisher><project><title>LTER: KBS - Ecological and Social Mechanisms of Resilience in Agroecosystems</title><personnel><organizationName/><role>program</role></personnel><award><funderName>National Science Foundation</funderName><funderIdentifier>http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001</funderIdentifier><awardNumber>DEB 2224712</awardNumber><title>LTER: KBS - Ecological and Social Mechanisms of Resilience in Agroecosystems</title><awardUrl>https%3A%2F%2Fnsf.gov%2Fawardsearch%2FshowAward%3FAWD_ID%3D2224712%26HistoricalAwards%3Dfalse</awardUrl></award></project><dataTable><alternateIdentifier system="lter.kbs.msu.edu">https://lter.kbs.msu.edu/datatables/403</alternateIdentifier><entityName>Kellogg Biological Station LTER: Diffusion of SF6 and N2O Tracers (KBS102-001)</entityName><entityDescription>Concentrations of SF6 and N2O tracer gases over time after injection during summer and fall of 2012. Experiments always started at 10:30-11:00 am on the day indicated. 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Resource Gradient</attributeDefinition><measurementScale><nominal><nonNumericDomain><textDomain><definition>Name of the site: LTER MCSE, Monolith Lysimeters, or 
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  author = {I Shcherbak and G P Robertson},
  title = {Determining the diffusivity of nitrous oxide in soil using in situ tracers},
  year = {2014},
  journal = {Soil Science Society of America Journal},
  pages = {79-88},
  volume = {78},
  doi = {10.2136/sssaj2013.05.0181}
}
</bibtex></usageCitation><usageCitation><bibtex>@article{citation_3768,
  author = {I Shcherbak and G P Robertson},
  title = {Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from subsurface soils of agricultural ecosystems},
  year = {2019},
  journal = {Ecosystems},
  pages = {1650-1663},
  volume = {22},
  number = {7},
  doi = {10.1007/s10021-019-00363-z}
}
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